The Health Library
- Warm up, work-out, then warm down and stretch if you have time, sound about right?
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Interestingly, stretching is far more applicable to improving our exercise performance than it seems! For those of you who will weight train or run till exhaustion or until the muscle fails, but take no time to stretch, here’s a chain of events that may help you to understand why you ache…
- The Importance of Pre & Post Natal Exercise
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We would likely offer a six week program pre and post pregnancy based on these principles. Actively engaging in exercise during pregnancy can have a dramatic effect on reducing weight gain during pregnancy and after giving birth. Sleep patterns and mood can also be improved and exercise is often associated…
- Benefits of Chair Massage
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The number of organizations that offer massage therapy to lower stress and improve productivity is growing every year. A workplace massage therapy programs help to increase job satisfaction and create a caring environment that employees really appreciate. And a massage program can even help attract skilled workers in the first place!…
- Diet: General Do’s and Don’ts
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Always Eat as Natural as Possible! Preferably organic foods brought at farmers markets. If possible avoid packaged, tinned and frozen foods such as baked products and fried foods. They contain a type of fat that causes heart disease. Reduce Grains and Sugars! Grains and sugars cause a release of a fat…
- What Makes a Good Client?
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Of course, awareness like this can only be a good thing for the quality of our personal training and will surely wash away the rubbish and set truly high standards in a vocation often underestimated by many in terms of the required level of expertise. Good Client Criteria Ok, this site…
- About…. Metabolic Typing
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Findings suggested that evolution and survival of the fittest has led to different cultures being specifically suited to a certain type of diet to survive. Despite the Eskimos consuming a diet of up to 90% fat and protein, the incidence of heart disease were non existent. Upon adopting a westernised diet…